Category Archives: aliens

episodes that seemed about aliens

X Files: Colony (s2 e16)

Summary: Unconscious and narrating, Mulder starts the episode in hypothermia and sure of extraterrestrial presence. A bunch of identical green-blooded guys being killed off by another green-blooded guy. Then, bam! The return of Samantha Mulder. Raised by one of the alien duplicates. Episode cliff-hangs with Scully staring at DoppelMülder.

Location: Beaufort Sea, Arctic Circle; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Binghamton, New York; Syracuse, New York; West Tisbury, Massachusetts; Tileston, Virginia

Guest Actors: Brian Thompson shows up in 9 episodes as the Alien Bounty Hunter.

David Duchovny gets a writing co-credit on this one.

X Files: Ascension (s2 e6)

Summary: Part 2, Scully is abducted by Duane Berry after they remove and inspect suspicious metal fragments from his body. Scully is subsequently abducted by aliens and/or the government. (a plot line necessitated by Gillian Anderson’s pregnancy) Mulder becomes suspicious of Krycek who disappears. Skinner reopens X Files.

Location: Washington, D.C.; Rixeyville, Virginia; Warrenton, Virginia

X Files: The Erlenmeyer Flask (s1 e 24)

Summary: Episode starts with suspect fleeing police bleeding green then Mulder getting a call from Deep Throat. Deep Throat tips Mulder to government-run alien-human hybrid research. Season ends with Deep Throat being shot and uttering “Trust No One”, Mulder calling Scully in the middle of the night: “They’re shutting us down”, Cigarette Smoking Man storing alien sample in large Pentagon storage room.

Location: Baltimore, Maryland. Gaithersburg, Maryland. Washington, DC.

Mentions of the Human Genome Project and gene therapy as cutting edge work.

X Files: E. B. E. (s1 e17)

Summary: Extraterrestrial Biological Entity.  Lead by a secret informant, Mulder and Scully trace the smuggling of a downed spacecraft and its occupant across the country.  This episode introduces The Lone Gunmen, some of my favorite recurring characters.

And for a light moment: “I think it’s remotely plausable that someone might think you’re hot,” Mulder to Scully.

Location: Iraq; Hakkari, Turkey; Reagan, Tennessee; Lexington, Tennessee